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I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller,
the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered-
as a storyteller. A good storyteller. ~ Louis L'Amour
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After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men? ~ Louis L'Amour
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A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country. ~ Louis L'Amour
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I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have the truth. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that. ~ Louis L'Amour
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning. ~ Louis L'Amour
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From Caprock Rancher:
Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight ... fight. Talk about it after. ~ Louis L'Amour
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From a blow. His yellow eyes clung to von Hallstatt. He desperately ~ Louis L'Amour
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A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Never did a tree fall
That did I not feel a pang
For rightly said when they are non man will be gone..
For The very air is replenished by them trees
When they are gone the air will thicken and we all will die
Will become rubbles our forts and tower..
Only weeds and stones to cover
The unsightly mounds we leave..
-Lonesome Gods ~ Louis L'Amour
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If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If it's west of the Mississippi, it's a western, a different category. There's no sense to it. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Evil comes often to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Mathurin Kerbouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative ... ~ Louis L'Amour
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Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it. ~ Louis L'Amour
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A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Much of command is the ability to take command. ~ Louis L'Amour
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If you want to be creative, go where your questions lead you. ~ Louis L'Amour
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There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond. ~ Louis L'Amour
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See perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout ~ Louis L'Amour
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The mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all. ~ Louis L'Amour
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but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There ~ Louis L'Amour
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There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness. ~ Louis L'Amour
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The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers. ~ Louis L'Amour
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People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was. ~ Louis L'Amour
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It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done, and do it coolly. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. ~ Louis L'Amour
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I fear there will be no future for those who do not change. ~ Louis L'Amour
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I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Laws are made to free people, not to bind them - if they are the proper laws. They tell each of us what he may do without transgressing on the equal liberty of any other man. ~ Louis L'Amour
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There can be no living together without understanding, and understanding means compromise. Compromise is not a dirty word, it is the cornerstone of civilization, just as politics is the art of making civilization work. Men do not and cannot and hopefully will never think alike, hence each must yield a little in order to avoid war, to avoid bickering. Men and women meet together and adjust their differences, this is compromise. He who stands unyielding and immovable upon a principle is often a fool, and often bigoted, and usually left standing alone with his principle while other men adjust their differences and go on. ~ Louis L'Amour
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- This Indian wife you have ...
- Had. She's dead.
- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up
an unhappy memory.
- I can't remember anything unhappy
about Destarte. ~ Louis L'Amour
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You can't fight the desert ... you have to ride with it. ~ Louis L'Amour
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A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything. ~ Louis L'Amour
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The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Aye, but a hand properly used can be as dangerous as a knife . . . And a man is not lynched for what he does with his hands. ~ Louis L'Amour
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A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind. I've helped bury a few who did think that way ... nice, peaceful men who wanted no trouble and made none.
When feeding time comes around there's nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Who mentioned the Church? On the contrary, I have great respect for religion. My objection is to those who are against so many things and for so little. ~ Louis L'Amour
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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Trail dust is thicker'n blood ... ~ Louis L'Amour
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The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Well, I've often been wrong, but this time I was right and they had to pay mind to me or bury me, and mine is a breed that dies hard. ~ Louis L'Amour
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My stories may seem to be the stories of men, but a check of my books will show that I have probably written the stories of more strong women than any other writer ... [examples include] Miss Nesselrode of The Lonesome Gods, Ruth Macken of Bendigo Shafter, Echo Sackett of Ride the River, Em Talon of Ride the Dark Trail are some ... [and] one of my favorites is Miss Jessica Trescott of Matagorda. (The Sackett Companion) ~ Louis L'Amour
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I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label. ~ Louis L'Amour
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To a wandering man in the wilderness a back trail must be as important as that ahead, for it might be the direction taken tomorrow, and when one faced around the trail looked far, far different. Gigantic boulders seen from one direction might be low, flat rocks seen from another ... all things were different. Studying trails had taught him much about life, that much depends on the viewpoint. ~ Louis L'Amour
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do you want to explain those?" He gestured ~ Louis L'Amour
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Who might have ventured into the Strip were usually warned in time and rode away to more tolerant ~ Louis L'Amour
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It is this by which we measure a man, by what he does with his life, by what he creates to leave behind. - Louis L'Amour ~ Louis L'Amour
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Nobody lives long low-rating an enemy. You've got to give the other fellow credit for having as much savvy as you have, and maybe a little more. ~ Louis L'Amour
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He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much. ~ Louis L'Amour
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He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse. ~ Louis L'Amour
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What can the will do when the heart commands? ~ Louis L'Amour
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It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of religious or political belief, and it is a poor sort of man who will permit others to dictate what he may or may not learn. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things. ~ Louis L'Amour
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But a long time ago I made me a rule: I let people do what they want to do. ~ Louis L'Amour
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There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning. ~ Louis L'Amour
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What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?"
I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know?
"There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning. ~ Louis L'Amour
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How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it.
There was beauty out there ... ~ Louis L'Amour
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The door. Far down the street he could ~ Louis L'Amour
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We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking. ~ Louis L'Amour
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All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers ... only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit. ~ Louis L'Amour
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It was a life that had left him rich in experience, but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness ~ Louis L'Amour
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To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. ~ Louis L'Amour
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To a fool time brings only age not wisdom. ~ Louis L'Amour
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A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination. ~ Louis L'Amour
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I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me. ~ Louis L'Amour
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There are folks who can't abide camp-robber jays, but I take to them. Often enough they've been my only company for days at a time, and they surely do get friendly. They'll steal your grub right from under your nose, but who I am to criticize the lifestyle of a bird? He has his ways, I have mine. Like I say, I take to them. ~ Louis L'Amour
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He'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy. ~ Louis L'Amour
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I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer. ~ Louis L'Amour
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The call of the horizon finds quick response in the heart of every wanderer. ~ Louis L'Amour
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off the leaves and straightened my clothes, wishing there was ~ Louis L'Amour
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. ~ Louis L'Amour
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about him, although not many ~ Louis L'Amour
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It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This
" I held out my hands "
this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it. ~ Louis L'Amour
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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone. ~ Louis L'Amour
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From Elisha Comes to Red Horse:
I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. ~ Louis L'Amour
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And then there's the gun itself. No man in his right mind will play with a gun. I've seen show-offs doing fancy spins and all that. No real gun-fighter ever did. With a hair-trigger, he'd be likely to blow a hole in his belly. The gun-fighter knows enough of guns to be wary of them. He treats them with respect. A pistol was never made for anything except killing, and a gunfighter never draws a gun unless to shoot, and he shoots to kill. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. ~ Louis L'Amour
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The idea of love, while always in her mind, had never become quite real to her. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot. ~ Louis L'Amour
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I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. ~ Louis L'Amour
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People have a greater tolerance for evil than for violence. If crooked gamboling, thieving and robing are covered over folks will tolerate it longer than out right violence, even when the violence may be cleansing. ~ Louis L'Amour
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He had seemed huge and fat. He was all of that, but he was also a man of unbelievable strength. His ~ Louis L'Amour
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Staring out at the sunlit street. It was a whole lot simpler out ~ Louis L'Amour
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Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content. ~ Bendigo Shafter By Louis L'Amour
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Such are the amenities of social life, which oft makes a liar of the best of men. ~ Louis L'Amour
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Deep blue. She was beautiful, not merely pretty, but there was in her eyes the haughty disdain of a queen reprimanding a clumsy subject. ~ Louis L'Amour
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In Bowdrie's limited vocabulary, to be responsible was the most important word. ~ Louis L'Amour
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